Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction featuring The Now
Modern & Contemporary Evening Auction featuring The Now
Property from an Important Private British Collection
Saint-Tropez. Le rayon vert
Auction Closed
March 6, 07:55 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000,000 - 7,000,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Paul Signac
1863 - 1935
Saint-Tropez. Le rayon vert
signed P Signac and dated 1906 (lower left)
oil on canvas
73 by 92 cm. 28 ¾ by 36 ¼ in.
Executed in 1906.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (acquired from the artist on 22 January 1907)
Gaston Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (acquired from the above on 25 January 1907)
Bernheim-Jeune Fils, Paris (acquired from the above)
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (acquired from the above on 18 May 1907)
Jean Laroche, Villa Sauge Pourprée, Deauville (acquired from the above on 5 January 1922)
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 8 December 1928, lot 68 (consigned by the above)
Collection Noël, Paris (acquired by 1932)
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 11 December 1957, lot 136
Collection Sternac, Paris (acquired from the above sale)
M. E. Zervudachi
Sotheby’s, London, 3 December 1958, lot 155 (consigned by the above)
Private Collection, United Kingdom (acquired from the above sale)
Acquired by descent from the above by the present owner
The Artist’s Handlist (cahier manuscrit) (titled Tropez. Le Rayon Vert)
Paul Signac and Gaston Lévy, Pré-catalogue, circa 1929-32, p. 376, illustrated
Louis Vauxcelles, "La vie artistique. Exposition Paul Signac," Le Gil Blas, 26 January 1907, p. 2
Maurice Guillemot, "À travers les Expositions," L’Art décoratif, supplément, September 1911, p. 4, illustrated
Françoise Cachin, Signac, Catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint, Paris, 2000, no. 444, p. 280, illustrated
Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paul Signac, 1907, no. 24
Krefeld, Kaiser-Wilhelm Museum, Exposition d’art français, 1907, no. 131 (titled Le rayon vert)
Nantes, Société des Amis des Arts de Nantes, 19ème Exposition, 1910, no. 482 (titled Le rayon vert, Provence)
Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, La Montagne, 1911, no. 41 (titled Le rayon vert)
Lyon, Exposition internationale urbaine de Lyon, 1914, no. 389
Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, P. Signac, 2003, no. 46, p. 113, illustrated in colour